This spring, with no half or full marathon races on the horizon any time soon, I thought now would be the ideal time to put aside the long training runs, and turn my focus towards the shorter distances for a change. Especially with the very welcome recent news that parkrun is hoping to restart it's... Continue Reading →
Saturday 14th March 2020 - an uneventful muddy morning at Walthamstow parkrun as I plodded around the 5km route in a leisurely time of 34 minutes, not knowing that this would be the last parkrun I would take part in for quite some time! In all honesty, when that first parkrun was cancelled, I was... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! It's 2021, time to put the difficulties of the past year behind us and start looking towards a brighter time ahead. At least, that's what most of us thought as New Year's eve ticked over into January, however it soon became obvious that the early of 2021 could well turn out to... Continue Reading →
Well, this year didn't quite go as planned did it? Like so many of us, I started this year fresh with hopes and plans, and a calendar packed full of races to look forward to. Well, we all know what happened next! It's been a year full of challenges and frustrations, of readjusting mindsets and... Continue Reading →
So, we've nearly made it through 2020 and can hopefully start looking forward to a brighter new year with hopes of a vaccine on the horizon. It's been a very challenging time for race event organisers, having to cancel all their events for months on end, and then adapt to the ever-changing regulations when bringing... Continue Reading →
As with so many of us, the first half of 2020 was a bit of a struggle for me. When the first lockdown hit, I suddenly found myself flung into juggling working from home, with homeschooling two young children. I never felt at the time as if my eating habits really changed, but my anxiety... Continue Reading →
So here we are, approaching the end of 2020, with my running goals for the year long since fallen by the wayside. Like so many of us, I found the early lockdown quite a struggle, trying to work effectively from home whilst home schooling my two little boys. One by one, my dream races were... Continue Reading →
So today was the day of the Virtual London Marathon, something I had been looking forward to and training towards for the last six weeks. With the mass-participation event cancelled, London were allowing participants to put all their training miles to good use and earn their medal by completing the marathon distance on October 4th,... Continue Reading →
This year was supposed to be an exciting one for my running, with a whole host of races planned, leading up to the highlight of my year, running the Chicago and New York marathons. Of course, as the year progressed and all mass participation races were cancelled one by one, it became clear that this... Continue Reading →
The past couple of months saw all my 2020 races steadily cancelled one by one, including finally the ones I had been looking forward to the most, the Chicago and New York marathons. With no need to carry on with the long distance training runs, I had instead been working on various self-appointed running challenges... Continue Reading →
Monday Running 